hard-wires

Builds in directly

Hard-wires means to connect directly with permanent wiring rather than through plugs or wireless signals: The electrician hard-wires the smoke detectors to the main power.

Figuratively, it describes making something fixed or automatic, often referring to innate traits or deeply ingrained behaviors: Evolution hard-wires us to fear snakes.

The past tense hard-wired works as an adjective: a hard-wired response.

permanence

fixed

Restored or immovable

invariable · stable · unchangeable · irreversible · indelible · ingrained · inherent · built-in · embedded · entrenched

predetermination

predispose

Create prior susceptibility

inevitability · inborn · innate · instinct · genetic · prewired · preprogrammed · conditioning · nature · biological

circuitry

solder

Fusible bonding alloy

diode · connector · electrode · conductor · insulator · inductor · relay · switch · breadboard · amplifier

neuroscience

brain

Seat of cognition

pathways · circuitry · plasticity · cognition · instinct · behavior · conditioning · reflex · limbic · cortex

Opposites
connection permanence

hard-wiresunplugs

Withdraws from socket

plugs in · disconnects · patches · detaches · removes

flexibility/adaptability

hard-wiresmodularizes

Separates into interchangeable units

parameterizes · makes flexible · externalizes · abstracts

INNATENESS (metaphorical usage)

hard-wireslearns

Gains new knowledge

acquires · conditions · trains · develops · programs

Family

hard-wire, hard-wired, hard-wiring, hard, harder, hardest, harden, hardened, hardening

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